Linda Gary

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Linda Gary
Gary in 1971
Born	Linda Gary Dewoskin November 4, 1944 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	October 5, 1995(1995-10-05) (aged 50) North Hollywood, California, U.S.
Resting place	Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1971–1995
Spouse	Charles Howerton ​ (m. 1967)​
Children	3

Linda Gary (born Linda Gary Dewoskin, November 4, 1944 – October 5, 1995)^[1] was an American actress.^[2][3][4]

Gary worked as a voice-over artist in animation and also appeared in two live-action films, 1977's Joyride To Nowhere with husband Charles Howerton and 1980's Cruising^[3] with Al Pacino. She lent her voice in such movies as Wolfen^[3] and Switch.^[3]

Linda played Dr. Maura Cassidy on Lee Hansen's Alien Worlds.

She got her start dubbing Italian films into English while living in Rome with her husband Charles Howerton, then returned to the U.S. in 1974.

Gary started going to voice acting classes taught by Daws Butler. She later claimed "When I got my first voice over job, I just sent Daws the check...He believed in me, and I really have him to thank for my career."^[5]

Gary voiced different characters on several Hanna-Barbera television series: Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo; The Smurfs as Dame Barbara in one episode; Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats as Mrs. Vandergelt; The Pirates of Dark Water, where she did additional voices; and SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron as Doctor Abby Sinian. She voiced Queen Morbidia & Nekara in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.

ABC Weekend Special was a Saturday morning TV series that aired from 1977 to 1997. It featured stories in both the live-action and animated realms. Gary's voice could be heard on Scruffy, The Puppy Saves the Circus, The Amazing Bunjee Venture, The Return of the Bunjee, The Velveteen Rabbit and The Magic Flute.^[3]

During the 1980s and 90's, Gary did several guest voice-over appearances in such Disney television series as Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Darkwing Duck,^[3] DuckTales, TaleSpin, The Little Mermaid and Bonkers. She voiced a gazelle and a hippo on The Lion King tie-in read-along cassette story The Brightest Star. She also voiced Maleficent and the opening narrator in Fantasmic!. She voiced Muffy Vanderschmere in TaleSpin and Blender, Floor Lamp and Green Car in The Brave Little Toaster.

She narrated Disney read-along stories in 1977: Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and It's a Small World. She also narrated a quartet of the Rainbow Brite read-along stories.

Gary voiced several additional characters on the 1984 Transformers animated series. She also voiced Raven, a Cobra Night Raven pilot in the G.I. Joe episode "In the Presence of Mine Enemies".

Gary voiced Colleen in an episode of the short-lived 1981 Spider-Man with Ted Schwartz as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, and voiced Aunt May in the first season of the 1994-1998 Spider-Man with Christopher Daniel Barnes as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. She was later replaced by Julie Bennett.

Her voice acting was mostly for the Filmation studio. She voiced characters in several of Filmation's TV series such as The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!, Blackstar, and as the title character in Web Woman.

Gary voiced Jane on an episode of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle.

She also did voice work on He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (initially miscredited as "Linda Gray"^[6]) and She-Ra: Princess of Power. She was reunited with fellow voice-over actors Alan Oppenheimer and George DiCenzo from BlackStar.^[4] She provided many of the female voices on He-Man such as Teela, Evil-Lyn, the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull and Queen Marlena, as well as several from She-Ra like Madame Razz, Glimmer, Shadow Weaver, Scorpia and Entrapta.

She voiced several films for Filmation such as He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special^[3] and Happily Ever After^[3] as Critterina and Marina.

Gary voiced the role of Grandma Longneck in The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure,^[3] The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving^[3] and The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists.^[3] She was later replaced by Miriam Flynn.

In video games, she provided voices in several adventure games such as King's Quest VI as the Oracle, Red Chess Queen, Mother Ghost and Queen Allaria, Thayer's Quest as Lady in the Woodlands and Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers as Grandma Knight/Tetelo.

Gary was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 4, 1944. She married actor Charles Howerton on December 21, 1967, and had two daughters, Alexis and Dana.^[4] Gary was also stepmother to Howerton's daughter from his previous marriage, Lynn Howerton.^[4] She died of heart failure and complications of brain cancer on October 5, 1995, at her home in North Hollywood, California, at age 50. She is buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills.^[1]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	Lady Frankenstein	Tania	Uncredited
1981	Wolfen	ESS
1984	Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind	Queen Selena, Old Lady	1985 English dub; uncredited
1985	The Secret of the Sword	Teela, Queen Marlena, Sorceress of Castle Grayskull, Shadow Weaver, Glimmer, Madame Razz
1985	He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special	Teela, Queen Marlena	Television special
1987	Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night	Bee Atrice
1988	Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats	Mrs. Vandergelt
1989	Happily Ever After	Critterina / Marina
1991	Switch	God
1993	The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Other Stories	Narrator
1994	The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure	Grandma Longneck
1995	The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving	Grandma Longneck	Posthumous release
1996	The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists	Grandma Longneck	Posthumous release, (final film role)

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976–1980	Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle	Jane
1981–1989	The Smurfs	Dame Barbara (seasons 2 and 3), Chlorhydris (seasons 3–8)	Name misspelled in credits as "Linda Gray."
1981	Blackstar	Mara, Taleena, Amber, Storm, Leilanna
1981	Spider-Man	Colleen
1983	The Dukes	Additional voices (Season 1)
1983–1984	The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show	Additional voices
1983–1985	He-Man and the Masters of the Universe	Teela, Evil-Lyn, Queen Marlena, Sorceress of Castle Grayskull, additional characters
1985–1986	She-Ra: Princess of Power	Scorpia, Entrapta, Madame Razz, Shadow Weaver, Glimmer, additional characters
1985–1986	The Transformers	Chromia, Fairy-tale princess, Witch, Disco Girl #2
1991–1993	The Pirates of Dark Water	Additional voices
1992-1994	Batman: The Animated Series	Additional voices
1993-1994	SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron	Dr. Abby Sinian
1994	Spider-Man	Aunt May

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Thayer's Quest	Lady in the Woodlands
1992	King's Quest VI	Oracle, Red Chess Queen, Mother Ghost, Queen Allaria
1993	Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers	Grandma Knight / Tetelo

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Disney's Fantillusion	Maleficent
1998	Fantasmic!	Maleficent, Opening Announcer

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	My Name Is Rocco Papaleo	Jenny
1977	Joyride to Nowhere	Boutique Clerk
1980	Cruising
1981	Smokey Bites the Dust	Woman Sheriff
1996	Father Frost	Storyteller

• Linda Gary at IMDb